that no one votes against vladimir putin. the military report is that the situation is very dangerous. wagner control something from about ten to 20,000 soldiers. most of them now are in rostov city, a very big city with more than i million inhabitants. i ve been there many times. we know also that the wagner group is very professional in fighting which we know from the case in back boot. to fight against 20,000 mostly professional soldiers of wagner in rostov, the russian army need to take from the ukrainian front, something like more than
the nation early this morning. these pictures released form the wagner military group purport to show ngeny prigozhin with armed men in rostov. wagner say these pictures are taken at the southern military district headquarters in rostov and that he is arguing with deputy defence minister yunus bek yevkurov and general vladimir alexeyev. the bbc is unable to verify the location of these pictures. our reporter nicky schiller is in the newsroom monitoring developments. just bring it up to date with what has happened so far this morning. i m going to bring you up to date with some of the international reaction that has been coming in. within the last half an hour or so we ve had a very brief statement from the nato military alliance which says they are monitoring the situation, as you would imagine. that is the message from a lot of european capitals, monitoring the situation coming out of france and germany. the german also there
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but he said he had 25,000 wagner fighters who were ready to get rid of evil, he said, in the russian military leadership. so it was clear last night that he was laying down the gauntlet and this challenge, to try to remove the russian military leadership. and then waking up this morning, the reports that wagner fighters had crossed overfrom ukraine back into russia, that they had entered rostov. the reports this morning that wagner is now in control of military sites in rostov, including the airfield, including, it seems, from another video, the major regional military headquarters in rostov. there was this extraordinary video that we saw this morning, again, posted on social media, showing yevgeny prigozhin sitting between two very senior russian military commanders, including a deputy defence minister, arguing with them, basically
who is a former political advisor to vladimir putin. thank you so much forjoining us. i m interested for your reaction to what is happening inside your country at the moment. at what is happening inside your country at the moment. of course, it s very negative country at the moment. of course, it s very negative reaction. - country at the moment. of course, it s very negative reaction. in - it s very negative reaction. in fact, one of the most efficient parts of the russian army which is this private military group. i would say that most of the officers in the russian army support progozhin and the wagner group. of course, there is much disagreement with him when he opened the appraisal against the defence ministry. progozhin says